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Four young Nigerians hid inside a container ship. They wanted to reach Europe as stowaways. 14 days later, the men were stranded half dead in Brazil. And now?

Maung Saungkha's fate, along with his country's, changed at dawn on 1 February 2021. Shaken by a coup d'état, Burma is once again sinking into dictatorship. The pacifist poet, for whom words are no longer enough, decides to raise an army in the jungle. With the support of hardened guerrilla soldiers, the commander galvanises young city-dwellers with no experience of war. At all costs.

Multimillion-dollar companies operate mailboxes in a wooden hut deep in the North German forest. But the low taxes they pay don’t go into public coffers—they go to the estate owner: Count Gregor von Bismarck, great-great-grandson of Germany’s first chancellor.

The percentage of people with only basic education is highest in the poorest neighbourhoods, the final link in cycle that repeats generation after generation, cutting off opportunities for families with fewer resources.

Behind the border fence sit teenage girls and boys. At night, the Belarusians come back, hunting people. The girls scream desperately, clinging tightly to the fence. The Belarusians drag them away, tossing their sleeping bags into the fire—a red column bursts out.

Four months among Shor's "servants". An undercover investigation.

How Israel's War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza. The IDF has taken control of 26% of the Gaza Strip, building bases and paving roads. Israel's religious right is already advancing towards its target. This is how it looks through the eyes of Israeli soldiers.

Can I have a baby (and do I want to have a baby?) when all the doomsday scenarios predict that the world will become an increasingly scary place to live?

Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.

Every spring, Dutch fields turn yellow because of the controversial pesticide glyphosate. Little is known about how much of the pesticide is used and where exactly. For the first time, Follow the Money used satellite images to map the yellow hotspots - and the nature reserves, groundwater protection areas and primary schools nearby. Next week, the House will debate a possible ban.

A government policy to break up majority-nonwhite neighborhoods is tearing apart the social fabric of tight-knit communities.

There’s one Palestinian who could help end the conflict. He’s in an Israeli jail.

Navalny’s death has exposed the similarities between Russia’s current penal system and Stalin’s.

The hidden history of the Cold War adoption complex.

How one man has made millions from Britain’s broken immigration system. A joint investigation by Liberty Investigates and Prospect.

Our smartphones know a lot about us. Such as our location. Such information allows navigation apps to get us where we want to go right down to the last meter, while weather apps tell us when to expect rain and dating apps show us people nearby. But numerous app providers sell our location data onward.

For ten days Politiken has followed the course of life and death at the Palliative Care Unit at Hvidovre Hospital, where staff are committed to relieve the physical and existential pain of terminally ill patients.

The most effective new drugs against serious diseases such as cancer or cystic fibrosis are authorised everywhere in the EU. But they are far from being available everywhere in the EU: Why the pharmaceutical industry can play poor countries off against rich ones, what Germany has to do with it - and how a three-year-old girl from Lithuania suffers as a result.

Out of sight, Vladimir Putin is waging a power struggle over a crucial oil pipeline. To prevent the flow of oil from stalling, Western oil giants such as Shell are going along with Russia's corrupt demands. Yet they are losing the battle.

Money alone cannot save anything. Only those who rediscover the pride and beauty of the 19th century will revive the railway.

Since 2020, two top biologists have been asking UCLouvain to protect them from a professional environment deemed sexist, violent, and conducive to harassment. As the University adapts its gender policy, in this case, it chose to oppose these researchers. The result: one is on medical leave and the other had to leave the University. This double academic crash symbolizes the major damage (scientific and financial) caused by male domination in academia and in this institution in particular.